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Commotio's Advent Concert
Britten's 'Christ's Nativity', and other seasonal works
Add to my Calendar 07-12-2019 19:30 07-12-2019 21:30 36 Commotio's Advent Concert Commotio are pleased to return to SJE Arts to perform a concert packed with Advent harmony. Bringing to the fore neglected works, such as Britten's 'Christ' Nativity' (the precursor to 'A Boy is Born'), lesser known works by Tippett, Maxwell Davies and Leighton, and discovering newer works by Jackson, MacDowall and Mantyjarvi, this will a concert of sensational seasonal music. There is even a chance of one of Commotio's legendary interval mince pies! SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church
109A Iffley Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 1EH
England
Programme
Peter Inness – Balulalow (1971)
Elizabeth Maconchy – There Is No Rose
Gabriel Jackson – O Virgo virginum (2016)
Peter Maxwell Davies – Jesus Autem Hodie
Cecilia McDowall – Annunciation
Kenneth Leighton – The World's Desire: The Christ-Child lay on Mary's lap
Arthur Wills – Carol of the Foal
Bernard Rose – Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby
Colin Riley – Snow Down (1994)
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 (2017)
Michael Tippett – The Weeping Babe (1944)
Benjamin Britten – Christmas suite: Christ's Nativity (1931)
Performers
Matthew Berry – choral director
Commotio
Programme Note
Commotio are pleased to return to SJE Arts to perform a concert packed with Advent harmony. Bringing to the fore neglected works, such as Britten's 'Christ' Nativity' (the precursor to 'A Boy is Born'), lesser known works by Tippett, Maxwell Davies and Leighton, and discovering newer works by Jackson, MacDowall and Mantyjarvi, this will a concert of sensational seasonal music.
There is even a chance of one of Commotio's legendary interval mince pies!
